I’m Alone on the 100th Floor Episode 11
4. Capital of the Tower (1)
[Title: I caught the Demon King!]
[Author: Seon Yu-jin]
[Should I say I was lucky? If there had been no compensation, I would have died, really… … .]
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[*Guys, this really doesn’t help.]
[* You guys?]
[* Hmm, is it buried?]
Eugene, who was able to jump up to the 10th floor via the shortcut on the 15.5th floor, couldn’t help but be startled by the large crowd of people he saw before his eyes.
“Wow… why are there so many people?”
The guide walking next to Eugene explained the reason.
“I don’t know what the situation is like upstairs, but down there, every tenth floor, there is a resting floor with no trials. Of those, the tenth floor is where the majority of the tower’s civilians reside.”
“Civilian?”
“Have you never heard of it?”
“I couldn’t have heard it since I was always alone. I can guess what it means… …
“Yes. It refers to people who have given up on climbing the tower.”
Eugene, who was able to roughly understand the situation on the 10th floor thanks to the guide’s answer, muttered while looking at the people passing by.
“I see. Is that because this is the first resting floor of the tower?”
“Yes. Since it is the floor with the most civilians in the tower, it is large in scale and very convenient, so it is like this… …
The atmosphere on the 10th floor felt like a medieval city had been moved there.
I could hear the sound of water somewhere, as if there was a fountain, and I could often see children running around, laughing.
“It’s definitely more spacious and cleaner than the cramped and stuffy 17th floor.”
Eugene, who was scanning the 10th floor, checked the levels of the climbers he saw here and there and asked about them.
“I guess it’s not usually a rest area, seeing as several fairly high-level climbers are passing by.”
“The 10th floor is literally the Seoul of the Tower. There are not only shops run by civilians, but also things like an auction house and offices of famous guilds… There’s even a 10th floor-exclusive return scroll made, so you can consider it to have everything except what’s missing.”
Gulp… Serin, who was continuing her speech, grabbed her stomach and Eugene snickered as he spoke.
“If it’s a floor that has everything except for the things that aren’t there, then there would probably be places like famous restaurants, right?”
“Well, that’s true.”
“Hehe, since the price doesn’t matter, just take them to the most expensive and delicious restaurant like a guide would.” “The most expensive and delicious restaurant?” The reactions of the two people who entered the ultra-luxurious restaurant where even the cheapest salad on the 10th floor cost over 300 gold were polar opposites.
“Should we go to another store?”
“Hey, here we go again.”
Eugene chuckled at the sight of Serin fidgeting over the price of food, but he was looking over the menu with a different expression from her.
“Are you going back? Are you going to a different store? No. As for the guide, since you have me as your employer, you should fix the habit of saying things like that.”
Eugene muttered as if he was surprised after checking the last page of the menu.
“By the way, you came to the most expensive house here, right?”
“That’s what I said.”
Serin was certain that there would be no house more expensive than this in the entire Tower of Trials.
“It’s the only store run by civilians that has a contract with the rankers. It uses ingredients that the rankers themselves have brought in.”
“Materials brought directly by the rankers?”
“Not something weird like a rotten water rat.”
“Huh??????”
“ha.”
Seeing the expression of genuine regret, a sigh escaped Serin’s mouth.
“??? Excuse me. Have you decided?”
While Serin was sighing with her head down, the clerk came.
“Give me one of these and one of these sets that look like porridge.”
As if he hadn’t forgotten what the guide had said above, when I ordered the porridge set, the clerk asked for confirmation.
“One set of 3 and one set of porridge, correct?”
“yes.”
“Thank you. Please wait a moment.”
As the clerk who took our order quietly left the table, Seo Rin, who had been bowing her head, checked the last page of the menu.
“Huh, two thousand gold for one? Are you in your right mind?”
Serin, with her mouth wide open, looked at Eugene as if asking why he ordered something so expensive, but Eugene didn’t move an inch.
“Don’t look at me like that. Right now, you should be worrying about the taste of the food in this restaurant rather than my wallet.”
Seeing her expression as carefree as ever, Serin couldn’t help but tease her once again.
“You said that even a rotten water rat looks tasty. It suits that strange appetite.
“Wouldn’t that be more difficult?”
Eugene’s shoulders hunched slightly, perhaps because the question that came flying in from the other direction was unexpectedly sharp.
‘I can’t refute that.’
Actually, when I was on the top floor, I got to try all sorts of things.
It seems like it was just yesterday that I was chewing on flesh that couldn’t be called food, swallowing poison instead of water and getting poisoned, and vomiting with tears and snot running down my face, but now…
“Hey, are you crying?”
“Don’t cry.”
“It seems like you’re crying… …
“You’re not crying?!”
The way he looked, with his chin tilted to the side and his lips pouting, looked just like a crying child.
” sorry.”
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“I’m not crying!”
There was moist dew in Eugene’s eyes as he firmly responded to Serin’s apology.
“??? Hehe.” While waiting for the food, Eugene chatted with Serin and turned his gaze toward the rough voice coming from the table behind him.
“Good! Good! I really like today’s rescued slave!”
A middle-aged man, adorned with gold ornaments all over his body, was sitting as a guest, and three climbers, who appeared to be his escorts, were standing next to the table, beating a drum.
“I’m glad you were satisfied.”
“Please come visit us often in the future.”
“If you show me such a good slave often, I might come every day instead of often! Ah!”
Eugene, who was listening to the conversation between the guests at another table, frowned and muttered.
“slave?”
Serin also explained that she had been listening to their conversation, as well as Eugene’s muttering.
“It’s different here than outside the tower. I guess there are people who actually create slaves and sell them.”
“It was inevitable that this would happen, since there was no police or military,” Serin added.
Even the god who built the tower did not seem to have anticipated that this situation would occur.
“Well, who would say anything if all the powerful ones climbed the tower? It would be stranger if that didn’t happen.”
Seo Rin nodded at Eugene’s monologue and agreed with his opinion.
“If only one of the guilds active above floor 40 paid attention, things like this would decrease significantly… They’re gritting their teeth and insisting that they have to conquer the tower first, so the situation is getting worse.”
Eugene, who was frowning at Serin’s dark expression, asked one more thing.
“By any chance, instead of helping… …
“yes.”
Before Eugene could finish asking his question, Serin answered.
“In fact, it encourages such behavior. It is easier to collect gold than to fight through the hardships of the trials.” Some people criticized this vicious behavior, but in the end, all that came back was the stigma of being a traitor and a delinquent.
“???What a pity.”
Eugene, who was staring at Serin’s expression, expressed his feelings that it was not good.
That’s it.
Eugene didn’t say anything more about him, and Serin waited for the food they ordered to arrive with an expressionless face.
“What? Are you trying to fool me? You said this was an expensive store, but you’re using slaves as employees? Huh?” Eugene, who was sipping a glass of water out of awkwardness, turned his head again at the loud noise coming from behind him.
“Who do you think I am? A piece of trash like this took my food… Ugh, it’s so dirty! I wouldn’t eat it even if you gave it to me!”
The middle-aged man in the gold-plated suit who had just been talking about slavery was now yelling at a female employee.
“I’m sorry. I’m sorry.”
The front skirt of the employee who kept bowing her head was soaked with hot soup.
The soup, which was probably the appetizer that Eugene and Serin had ordered, was steaming hot from the apron.
‘That’s 100% sure to be a burn.’
Serin took another sip of water while watching the steam rising from the employee’s skirt, and looked at Eugene’s expression.
Eugene still had a blank expression on his face and was doing nothing.
I wanted to get up and leave right away, but my employer was just sitting there, so why would I step forward first? No, that was a nuisance.
guide…….
Since he was neither more nor less than that, it was right not to care whether the employees in front of him were slaves or civilians.
“Okay, bring the boss!”
“I apologize. If you were inconvenienced because of my personal circumstances, I will provide separate service… …
“How dare you, slave? Stop talking nonsense and bring the boss here right now! All you slaves are allowed to do is get naked and bark!”
Before Serin could bite her lips, unable to bear the voice coming from the other side… a ‘creaking’ sound was heard.
The chair Eugene was sitting on scraped the floor, making an unpleasant noise.
‘Are you up?’
There was a hint of anticipation mixed into Serin’s expression as she blankly stared at Eugene as he got up.
There was an expectation that the boy who came down from the 100th floor would put an end to the commotion at the table across from him.
“Swoop.”
however…….
“Where is the bathroom here?”
The question uttered by the boy who had put down his empty water cup on the table was something I had not expected at all.
“Uh, is this the bathroom?”
“Oh. Because you drank too much water.”
Eugene pointed to the glass of water he was holding, scratched the back of his head as if embarrassed, and walked away to find a bathroom in the restaurant.
‘Did I expect too much?’
As Yujin passed the table where the commotion had been taking place, Serin’s anticipation disappeared and a bitter expression appeared on her face.
‘Well, the reason you helped me was simply because you needed a guide from below.’
Serin, who had been mumbling to herself, opened her eyes wide as she noticed Eugene returning to his seat.
‘ hmm?’
It was because Eugene, who had gone to the bathroom, was walking back holding a large iron plate in his hand.
‘Didn’t you go to the bathroom?’
The sizzling sound of the iron plate in his hand suggested that a steak was on it.
‘Wait, bathroom?’
Seorin frowned as she remembered Eugene getting up from his seat, saying he was going to the bathroom, and noticed something strange.
‘You’re going to the bathroom on the tower?’
I can confidently say that those summoned to the Tower of Trials have never once gone to the bathroom.
why?
This was because the blessing of the tower completely omitted the process of digestion of food and subsequent bowel movements.
“You there! What are you doing all of a sudden!”
The question that floated through her head for a moment made Rin flinch and shake her shoulders at the sound of a voice coming from the kitchen.
“Hey! You’re not an employee!”
A chef who had hurriedly left the kitchen shouted at Eugene, who was walking forward holding an iron plate in his hand.
???Sizzle sizzle!
Couldn’t you hear the chef’s voice over the delicious sound of the sizzling iron steak in his right hand?
Eugene, walking with steady steps, walked towards the table where the scuffle was still in full swing… … .
“Huh? What? You’re the boss?”
I made eye contact with a middle-aged man wearing several gold necklaces around his neck.
“hey.”
When Eugene called out, “Hey,” the middle-aged man blinked.
“…what?”
Seorin, who had gotten up from her seat and looked at Eugene without realizing it, grabbed the food without realizing it.
perhaps?
The anticipation that the top irregulars might do the mediation that he wanted to do was revived…
“You ask.”
≪……2 bars
≪……2”
Serin’s face, which had been filled with anticipation, twisted into a question mark.
‘ no way??????
The sizzling iron plate suddenly made a ‘sizzle’ sound of grilling flesh, and immediately afterwards, screams of ‘sizzle’ began.
“My sprrrrrrrr!!”
Eugene, who started rubbing his middle-aged scalp with a tepid steak, shouted explosively.
